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Which are your favourite ballad recordings played by trombonists?

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Some of my favorites:
Carl Fontana on Polka Dots & Moonbeams. He's awesome. Great things to transcribe here.

Bill Watrous on Body & Soul. A heavy classic.

Urbie Green on Old Folks (a real nice, original buttery piece)

Rick Culver from the Pat Metheny Big Band on Dream of the Return (kind of a rock-ish newer 90s feel straight-eighths ballad)

Bill Watrous might be my favorite on a ballad, but Carl is great, too. Urbie is also good, but the musical complexity sometimes isn't there. Frank is a phenomenal musician, but sometimes his quick runs and hard tongue can be off-putting in a ballad, just personal preference though.

Most anything with Dick Nash! Hatari Theme, I cover the WaterFront and many more!

Charlie Small.
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Any ballad played by Tommy Dorsey. In fact, his whole band was the best at playing ballads, with the best ballad vocalists. And Tommy had such a wonderful tone for ballads.

Lots of favorites including the ones already mentioned but Kai Winding is one of my big favorites for ballads.
Crazy She Calls Me

The Boy Next Door


That's Him

Lonely Town


Also, from the Woody Herman Band, Bob Burgess, Alone Again, Naturally


and Birch Johnson also with Woody, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life, also on the Woody Herman Thundering Herd LP

A standby is A Time for Love from the Watrous book.

jthomas105 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 1:41 pm Lots of favorites including the ones already mentioned but Kai Winding is one of my big favorites for ballads.
Crazy She Calls Me

Since when did Kai Winding play left-handed? Couldn't the record company have used a non-mirror image photo for this album cover?

Urbie - At Last
Jimmy Knepper - Where Flamingos Fly

How's this - Dave Steinmeyer, And We Will Love Again.

I would like to submit another name, that of Jimmy Cleveland, for his skill in playing ballads. He was also one of the most technically skilled of the bop-based trombonists, whilst retaining the wonderful characteristics of old-style jazz trombone playing:

As well as those already mentioned other great ballad players

Don Lusher too numerous to list but some of the best are on you tube

Buddy Morrow. Golden trombone a complete lp of ballads again on YouTube

Bart van Lier

Too name but three

Bill Watrous, one of the best, is smoother than butter. This recording is fantastic.

Curtis always gets me, hard to pick one but definitly one of my favorites.

Pre59 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:06 pm Charlie Small.
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Wasn't familiar with this guy, thank you this really beautiful stuff.

George Roberts with Stan Kenton. Bass bone at it's best.

John Allred’s “Eveline” on his album In the Beginning
And “Spring can Really Hang You Up the Most” on his Focused